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Faculty

Yohuru Williams
Office: Canisius Hall 320
Ph.D., Howard University
History

Renee White
Ph.D., Yale University
Sociology & Anthropology

Sally O'Driscoll
Ph.D., City University of New York
English

Terry Jones
Ph.D., University of Miami
Sociology & Anthropology

Kevin Dawson
Ph.D. University of South Carolina
History

John M. Orman
Ph.D., Indiana University
Politics

Cecilia Bucki
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
History

Ralph M. Coury
Ph.D., Princeton University
History

Johanna X.K. Garvey
Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley
English

Marie-Agnes Sourieau
Ph.D., University of Virginia
Modern Languages & Literatures

Ben B. Halm
Ph.D., Cornell University
English

Brian Torff
M.S., University of Bridgeport
Visual and Performing Arts

Recent Scholarship by Black Studies Faculty

Articles

  • Journal of American HistoryKevin Dawson, "Enslaved Swimmers and Divers in the Atlantic World," Journal of American History, March 2006 - Received the Organization of American Historians 2005 Louis Pelzer Memorial Award.
  • Yohuru Williams, "A Red Black and Green Liberation Jumpsuit: Roy Wilkins and the Conundrum of Black Power in Peniel Joseph ed., The Black Power Movement, ( New York: Routledge 2006).
  • Johanna X. K. Garvey, "(Up)Rooting the Family Tree: Caribbean Genealogies in Maryse Condé's Fiction." In Emerging Perspectives on Maryse Condé, A Writer of Her Own, eds. Sally Barbour and Gerise Herndon. Africa World Press, 2006.
  • Yohuru Williams, "A Tragedy with a Happy Ending: The Lynching of George White in History and Memory," Pennsylvania History, Vol. 72 No. 3 November 2005.

In Search of the Black Panther PartyBooks

  • Yohuru Williams and Jama Lazerow, eds. In Search of the Black Panther Party, (Durham: Duke University Press) forthcoming October 2006.
  • Renée T. White and Cynthia K. Pope. Forthcoming, fall 2006. "Exacerbating Inequality: U.S. AIDS Policy at Home and Abroad." American Sexuality. Also selected for publication in the anthology Sexuality Online, Cymene Howe and Gilbert Herdt, editors. University of California Press.

Journal editorship

  • Dr. Renée T. White, Co-Editor, Journal of HIV/AIDS Prevention in Children & Youth (Haworth Press)

Yohuru Williams

 (l-r) Dr. Manning Marable Professor of History and Political Science, and the Director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University in New York and Dr. Yohuru Williams at the Association for the Study of African-American Life and History's annual meeting, September 2006.